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VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
Making their world debut last summer, DanceAspen has risen as a new collective of professional dancers from the former Aspen Santa Fe Ballet – breathing new life and resiliency into the arts community of the nearby Roaring Fork Valley and across the Centennial State. The company will present innovative new works from their burgeoning and impressive repertoire at the Vilar Performing Arts Center.
Generously Underwritten by Susan & Jeff Campbell.
PROGRAM:
Begin Again
Music: Michael Wall – Flight Not Fled
Choreography: Matthew Gillmore, DanceAspen artist, and Julliard Alumni
Dancers: Samantha Altenau, Katherine Bolanos, and Matthew Gilmore
Next To
Music: “Clouded Street Sign” by Michael Wall
Choreography: Penny Saunders
Dancers: Marian Faustino, Madeline Scott
For Pixie
Music: “Wild Is The Wind” by Nina Simone
Choreography: Danielle Rowe
Dancers: Kaya Wolsey, Myles Woolstenhulme
Press Play
Music: “The Rockafeller Skank” by Fatboy Slim
Choreography: Caili Quan
Dancers: Sammy Alteanu, Marian Faustino, Madeleine Scott, Kaya Wolsey
in the end
Music: Maurice Ravel-Kaddish; played live by Mintze Wu
Choreography: Matthew Gilmore
Dancers: Katherine Bolanos, Blake Kraples
This will be the retirement show for Katherine Bolanos. Katherine danced with Aspen Santa Fe Ballet for 18 years and is a DanceAspen Founding Artist.
Everyone’s in St. Barth’s
Music: Piano Concerto in A Major; Metropolis Ensemble
Choreography: Danielle Rowe
Dancers: Sammy Alteanu, Katherine Bolanos, Matthew Gilmore, Madeline Scott, Kaya Wolsey, Myles Woolstenhulme
Casting and repertory are subject to change.
Photo credit: DanceAspen performs St. Barths. Photo by Beau Pearson.
Ticketing
RESERVED SEATING | $50 – $100
- We are offering a number of ticket packages and offerings this year. View them HERE.
- Ticket prices are subject to change. Price listed does not include service fees.
- Questions? Contact the Box Office at boxoffice@vvf.org or call 970.845.TIXS(8497)
Doors open one hour prior to showtime.
Meet the Performers
Laurel Jenny Wenton
Founder, Executive Director, Artist // Laurel has been known as Jenny Winton through most of her professional career. In 2009 she joined the Joffrey Ballet and was an artist of the company for five years before she transitioned into the...
Kaya Wolsey
Company Manager, Artist // Kaya Wolsey is a dancer, choreographer and teacher residing in Aspen, CO. Kaya received her early ballet training at Wasatch Ballet Conservatory under the direction of her mother, Allison Wolsey. After receiving her BFA from the...
Sammy Altenau
Sammy Altenau grew up in Southern California dancing at Dance Studio 84 under the tutelage of Carla Hunt Smallwood and at Cuizon ballet center with Lisa Cuizon. She was guided by Katherine Wolanske in modern and contemporary before attending the...
Katherine Bolanos
Katherine Eberle Bolaños, a native of Oklahoma City, began her professional career at the age of fifteen with Ballet Oklahoma where she danced for seven years. As a guest artist with Long Beach Ballet, she toured extensively throughout Taiwan and...
Marian Faustino
Marian Faustino received her formal dance training in the Philippines with the country’s two premier dance companies: Ballet Manila and Ballet Philippines. As a student and later as a company artist, she toured with both companies across the Philippines, Southeast...
Matthew Gilmore
Matthew Gilmore was born and raised in Canton, Massachusetts. He began his dance training at The Gold School and later went on to graduate from Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Matthew received his BFA from The Juilliard School in...
Blake Krapels
Guest Artist // Blake Krapels, a 2011 United States Presidential Scholar in the Arts, trained in New Jersey under the tutelage of Billy Larson and Jamie Salmon. In 2015 Blake graduated with a BFA in Dance from The Juilliard School,...
Madeleine Scott
Madeleine is an artist with Dance Aspen as well as the founder & artistic director of South Dakota's first professional ballet company, South Dakota Ballet. Madeleine has danced professionally with companies including Ballet West, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (guest artist...
Myles Woolstenhulme
Guest Artist // Myles was hired as a company member with SALT Contemporary Dance in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2016 where he currently dances as a full time artist. Myles has performed Repertoire from choreographers: Peter Chu, Gustavo Ramirez,...